Richard Linklater's French tide pays tribute to "Nouvelle Ambiguous" will always find the perfect home in Cannes, which is the case after the world premiere of comedy orgy at the 2025 Music Festival. The film won six-minute standing ovation as the actors hugged each other, and the leader’s wife, Zoey Deutch, blew a kiss to the audience.

From the beginning, the premiere of "Nouvelle Mague" was a dynamic thing. Linklater and Cast member Zoey Deutch sang and danced on the red carpet as he rose along the palace's iconic staircase on the red carpet. Before the movie was released, Linklater hugged and chatted with Quentin Tarantino. The film director of "Pruch Novel" premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, and he clapped enthusiastically. Tarantino was clearly moved by the film.

“We filmed here a year ago,” Linklater told the crowd the end. "It's amazing how we can show movies here. We're here! It means a lot to us, try to recreate the time, place and film history. It means a lot to every actor, and everyone is trying very hard to try and do it right. It's a really good moment. Thank you for this moment."

Linklater records the production of Jean-Luc Godard's French New Wave classic "Breathable" in "Nouvelle Mague". Guillaume Marbeck plays the iconic French filmmaker, while Deutch plays the film's main ladies Jean Seberg and Aubry Dullin starred in the film's male star Jean-Paul Belmondo. The film is the first project that Linklater shot in French.

Critics are as enthusiastic about the film as premiere audiences. variety Owen Gleiberman called the film a highlight of the 2025 festival, writing: "It is incredible to remember that Guillaume Marbeck and Jean-Luc Godard are so perfect. So is the whole movie."

Linklater often sees Godard as one of his greatest inspirations, making "Nouvelle ambiguous" his passionate project. Linklater said at a press conference last year that Godard taught him “an absolute love and dedication to the film. The film is its own world and deserves reverently view it as an elevated, all-round, all-inclusive, art form dedicated to itself. That’s what I tried to meet in that film.

Linklater proved to be the main holiday player this year. He participated in the Berlin International Film Festival in February, unveiling another film, Lorenz Hart's biopic musical Blue Moon, starring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Farmley and Andrew Scott. The film received strong reviews and won the support of Scott the Silver Bear. Sony Pictures Classics is scheduled to release "Blue Moon" in theaters later this year. Other recent films from Linklater include Glen Powell's "Hit Man", which premiered in Venice in 2023 to earn Netflix streaming success.

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